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    characters in this article correctly. Kharosthi script (Gāndhārī: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨮𐨿𐨛𐨁𐨌𐨫𐨁𐨤𐨁, romanized: kharoṣṭhī lipi), also known as the Gandhari script...
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    written in the Gāndhārī language using the Kharoṣṭhī script and are therefore sometimes also called the Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts. The collection is composed...
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    1 and Kharoṣṭhi at number 4, but also Javanaliya (probably Greek) and others not found in the Buddhist lists. While the contemporary Kharoṣṭhī script...
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    According to some authors, the word lipi, which is spelled dipi in the two Kharosthi versions of the rock edicts, comes from the Old Persian prototype dipi...
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    influence of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean and for its use of the Kharoṣṭhī script, compared to Brahmic scripts used by other Prakrits. Gāndhārī is...
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    and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script. The Kharosthi script, also spelled Kharoshthi or Kharoṣṭhī (Kharosthi: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨯𐨠𐨁) was an ancient script used...
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    was also an ancestor to the Syriac alphabet and Mongolian script and Kharosthi and Brahmi,and Nabataean alphabet, which had the Arabic alphabet as a...
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  • Telangana, India Gandhari language, north-western prakrit spoken in Gāndhāra Kharosthi, or Gandhari script Gandhari people, a tribe attested from the Rigveda...
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  • conquest of Afghanistan.[citation needed] Among these scripts are Sharada, Kharosthi, Greek (for the Bactrian language), and Brāhmī[citation needed]. For thousands...
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    oldest inscriptions, 4 looks like a +, reminiscent of the X of neighboring Kharoṣṭhī, and perhaps a representation of 4 lines or 4 directions. However, the...
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    Aspavarma or Aspa (Kharosthi: 𐨀𐨭𐨿𐨤𐨬𐨪𐨿𐨨 A-śpa-va-rma, Aśpavarma) was an Apracha general who ruled in Gandhara. He was the son of the Apracharaja...
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    Zeionises (Greek: Ζειονίσης Zeionísēs, ΖΕΙΟΝΙϹΟΥ Zeionisou (epigraphic); Kharosthi: 𐨗𐨁𐨱𐨂𐨣𐨁𐨀 Ji-hu-ni-a, Jihunia, 𐨗𐨁𐨱𐨆𐨞𐨁𐨐 Ji-ho-ṇi-ka, Jihoṇika;)...
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    Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. He studied, documented and illustrated...
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  • scripts, a family of scripts used to write Indian and other Asian languages Kharosthi (extinct) Indian numerals Indian religions, also known as the Dharmic...
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    enlightenment. Strauch, Ingo (2008). The Bajaur collection: A new collection of Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts – A preliminary catalogue and survey Strauch, Ingo (2010)...
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    club in his two hands. The artwork also has an inscription with it in Kharosthi script, which has been deciphered by scholars as Rama-Krsna, and interpreted...
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  • letter shapes did not become standard until the 1st century AD). The Kharosthi script is an Aramaic-derived alphasyllabary used in the Indo-Greek Kingdom...
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    Gāndhāra has come to be called Gāndhārī. A few documents are written in the Kharoṣṭhi script survive including a version of the Dhammapada. The Prakrits (which...
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    Azes I (Greek: Ἄζης Azēs, epigraphically ΑΖΟΥ Azou; Kharosthi: 𐨀𐨩 A-ya, Aya) was an Indo-Scythian ruler who ruled around c. 48/47 BCE – 25 BCE with...
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    Imperial Aramaic Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Parthian Kaithi Kawi Kharosthi Khitan small script Khojki Khudawadi Khwarezmian (Chorasmian) Linear A...
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  • systems Nabataean Syriac Palmyrene Edessan Hatran Elymaic Mandaic Pahlavi Kharosthi ISO 15924 ISO 15924 Hebr (125), ​Hebrew Unicode Unicode alias Hebrew Unicode...
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    BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE Samaritan 6th c. BCE Aramaic 8th c. BCE Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE Brahmi 3rd c. BCE (Brahmic) Pallava 4th century Cham 4th century...
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    ancestor of all Brahmic scripts Spread of Brahmic family of scripts (and Kharosthi) from the subcontinent. Some characteristics, which are present in most...
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  • visiting the region. Gāndhārī, an Indo-Aryan language written in the Kharosthi script, acted as the lingua franca of the region and through Buddhism...
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    for Sanskrit are the Brāhmī script, the related Kharoṣṭhī script and the Brahmi derivatives. The Kharosthi was used in the northwestern part of South Asia...
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    the Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī scripts; the abjad in question is usually considered to be the Aramaic one, but while the link between Aramaic and Kharosthi is...
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    Vima Takto or Vima Taktu (Greco-Bactrian: Οοημο Τακτοο, Oēmo Taktoo; Kharosthi: 𐨬𐨅𐨨 𐨟𐨑𐨆 Ve-ma Ta-kho, Vema Takho) was a Kushan emperor who reigned...
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    BCE Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE Samaritan 6th c. BCE Aramaic 8th c. BCE Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE Brahmi 3rd c. BCE (Brahmic) Pallava 4th century Cham 4th century...
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    (Bactrian: BAZHÞKO Bazēško; Middle Brahmi: 𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀺𑀱𑁆𑀓; Vā-si-ṣka, Vāsiṣka; Kharosthi: 𐨬𐨗𐨿𐨱𐨅𐨮𐨿𐨐 Va-jhe-ṣka, Vajheṣka; ruled c. 247–265 CE) was a Kushan...
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  • three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoṣṭhī, and Tocharian, the so-called slanting Brahmi. A as found in standard...
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